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About the Role

Ownership Works is seeking a mission-driven, client-focused professional to lead client workstreams, strengthen project execution, and build trusted relationships. This role translates strategic direction into high-quality delivery and contributes to advancing the practice and client outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day delivery of client engagements, working closely with portfolio company executive leadership teams and in partnership with CAS Principals on overall client relationships.
• Translate strategic direction into structured proposals and workplans, make execution decisions, and ensure the delivery of high-quality outputs.
• Develop materials, tools, and analyses that strengthen ownership culture and change leadership.
• Contribute to the evolution and scaling of the culture and transformation practice by innovating and building services, tools, playbooks, and delivery approaches.
• Mentor team members and help the team thrive and deliver its best work for our clients, in pursuit of our mission.
• Work in close collaboration with Ownership Works leadership, subject-matter expert peers, and external strategic partners.

Requirements

• Experience leading workstreams or projects that involve employee engagement, change management, or cultural alignment.
• Understanding of how organizations operate, including cross-functional workflows, stakeholder coordination, and frontline realities.
• Experience working in dynamic, fast-paced environments; ability to manage competing priorities.
• Strong project and program management skills; able to drive clarity, structure, and momentum.
• Strong relationship-building skills; able to engage effectively with mid-level and executive teams as well as frontline employees.
• Ability to identify issues, risks, and opportunities within workstreams and recommend practical solutions, proactively adjusting plans and approaches to stay oriented toward outcomes.
• Ability to identify issues, risks, and opportunities within workstreams and proactively adjust plans and approaches to stay oriented toward intended outcomes.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including presentation development.
• Problem-solving skills with the ability to break down ambiguous problems into structured work.
• Comfort operating in fast-paced, evolving, startup-like nonprofit environments.
• Emerging people leadership skills and a desire to mentor junior team members.
• Passion for social justice and the mission of Ownership Works; interest in becoming a subject matter expert in employee ownership.

Skills

• Project leadership
• Exceptional communication skills
• Stakeholder management
• Client-facing work
• Internal practice building
• Project management
• Relationship building
• Written communication
• Verbal communication
• Presentation development
• Problem-solving
• People leadership

Location

• New York City

Work Type

• Full Time
• Hybrid

Experience Level

• 5–8 years of experience in human capital or transformation consulting or in-house HR/People, operations, or roles involving organizational effectiveness, change leadership, or transformation.

Education Level

• B.A./B.S. required.
• Advanced graduate degree (e.g., MBA, MPA, etc.) preferred.

Salary/Compensations

• $140,000 - $160,000 / year
• Annual discretionary performance-based bonus subject to board approval.

Benefits

• Excellent health, vision, and dental coverage for you and your family.
• Unlimited paid time off.
• 401(k) plan with generous employer contributions.
• 18 weeks of fully paid parental leave.

About the Company

• Ownership Works is seeking a mission-driven, client-focused professional.
• The Client Advisory Services team is building best-in-class advisory services to serve top management teams at companies and private equity firms on the strategy and execution of shared ownership programs.
• In 2025, the organization worked with over 35 private equity firms to support the implementation of shared ownership programs in their portfolio companies.
• The organization also supports public companies and family-owned businesses.
• Ownership Works and its team members are results-oriented with a culture of humility and excellence.
• Pragmatic optimists who enjoy translating “big ideas” into actionable plans and results.
• Strategic, curious, diverse, and accountable.
• Incredibly fast-moving as we build and grow the organization.

Equal Opportunity

• Ownership Works is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other legally protected status.
• We use the federal E-Verify system to confirm the employment authorization of all newly hired employees.